DailyDirt: Bacon Tastes Good. Pork Chops Taste Goood.

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Pork is one of the most commonly consumed meats worldwide. Interestingly, even though it was marketed as the "other white meat" (that slogan was retired in 2011), the USDA always referred to pork as a "red meat" on its website. Here are just a few more fascinating tidbits on pig products.

Re: Lard

Given the small amounts used in everyday cooking, spending a little more to get much healthier cooking fats (coconut oil, ghee, lard) is one of the smartest and cheapest ways to start eating healthier. You're right that price is a driving factor of cooking oils, but the high amounts of terrible fats combined with the low oxidization point make canola a terrible cooking fat.

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I'm not even convinced they are more expensive after you factor in the reduced quantity needed. I find I need less then half as much grapeseed oil then I did canola, and just half that when using coconut oil (my latest discovery). Plus it turns out coconut oil is not just 'less bad', it's outright good for you.

I've been using grape seed oil for barbeque sauces, marinades, and vinaigrettes for years now, and the price is far from crippling. Of course, now that I've said that the price will double... :/

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...or just don't use fats at all, the Biosphere 2 project was a failure but one thing that came out of it, was the diet paper that was a success.

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They consumed the same low-calorie, nutrient-dense diet which Roy Walford had extensively studied in his research on extending lifespan through diet. [13] Medical markers indicated the health of the crew during the two years was excellent. Strikingly, they showed the same improvement in health indices such as lowering of blood cholesterol, blood pressure, enhancement of immune system. They lost an average of 16% of their pre-entry body weight before stabilizing and regaining some weight during their second year.[14] Subsequent studies showed that the biospherians' metabolism became more efficient at extracting nutrients from their food as an adaptation to the low-calorie, high nutrient diet.[15]

Vox Populi, atherosclerosis is a zit inside the human plumbing if it explodes inside you in a vein(blood vessel that brings blood) you have a heart attack. It is an inflammatory process that is linked to fat(cholesterol), if it grows it blocks and reduces blood flow or reduces the flow of where it is growing it can be in other places like in the case a zit appears in the pumbling of the kidneys is called renal atherosclerosis.

Re: Lard

What penalties? Do you get fined? Imprisoned? If I had a choice between frying eggs in canola oil and frying them in bacon fat, I think canola would come in a distant third. Pork fat rules! Now I need to go out and buy some lard. And maybe some beef tallow. Yeah, baby!

There was this one video showing how to use gelatin to create a osmotic membrane to produce lye. Those filters generally cost tens of thousands of dollars and there was this guy showing how to do it for just a few bucks, now that is innovative thinking.